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WAIST BELT ATTACHMENT.

No. 603,158. Patented Apr. 26,1898.

. .INVENITOI? A TTO'H'NEYS j UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLEMENT L. STEPHENSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO HELEN C. STEPHENSON, OF SAME PLACE.

WAIST-BELT ATTACH M ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 603,158, dated April 26, 1898.

' Application filed June 16, 1897. Serial No. 641,014. (No mod l.)

T at whom) it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLEMENT L. STEPHEN- SON, of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Waist-Belts, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is-an improvement in belts, having means by which the skirt of a womans dress may be held in position, the invention being in general characterized by a sheetmetal belt having a wire fastened thereto, the

ends of which are bent to form hooks for engagement with the dress.

This specification is the disclosure of one form of my invention, while the claim defines the actual scope of the invention.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure l is a fragmentary perspective view of my invention, and Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

The belt A may be formed of a sheet-metal strip and is provided with an opening 16, formed therein by striking .up the material of the belt. The struck-up portion is tubulated at the top of the opening to form an eye 17,

which receives a wire 19. The wire 19 is held rigidly in the eye 17 and is bent downwardly on each side of the opening 16 and then passed through the belt and has its ends turned up to form hooks 20, with which the garment may fielengaged and by which the garment will be This construction is very durable and does not detract from the strength of the belt, nor does it interfere with the use of the belt. The hooks 20 project from the outer side of the belt, and the skirt may be hung thereon, as will be understood.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent A belt having an opening formed therein, an eye attached to the inner side of the belt and located adjacent to the opening, and a wire secured in the eye and having portions lyingsnugly against the inner side of the belt, the terminals of the wire being passed through the belt and projected outwardly and upwardly to form hooks at the outer side thereof.

CLEMENT L. STEPHENSON. Witnesses:

J. FRED. ACKER, JNo. M. BITTER. 

